Kakie strannye shutki inoi raz ustraivaet zhizn! Zhurnalist Rodion Shakhrin, sobiraias v otpusk na grecheskii ostrov Korfu, dazhe predpolozhit ne mog, v kakoi popadet pereplet! Vnezapnaia i, pokhozhe beznadezhnaia liubov vynuzhdaet zakorenelogo kholostiaka postupitsia svoimi printcipami. No stoit li igra svech?